Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honest, quick-witted, forthright and cool, he is smallish (5 ft. 7½ in.), a conservative dresser and the possessor of a deep bass voice and a dry, often penetrating wit. Unostentatious, he drives to his Pittsburgh office from his home in Sewickley, Pa. in a 1954 two-door Ford, likes to watch baseball games. Hobbies: golf, fishing and photographing his grandchildren. Bargainer Stephens' definition of the requirements of his job: "To be a skilled negotiator takes character, integrity, quick wit, a keen mind, the ability to speak as the moment requires−with humor, sincerity, pathos and also...
...engineering brains. Starting out as a Cadillac laboratory assistant in 1930, he was the division's chief engineer by 1946, three years later developed the industry's first V-8 high-compression engine that kicked off the horsepower race. He moved to Chevy at a time when Ford was coming up fast. In 1954, when Ford and Chevy were neck and neck for the No. 1 spot for the first time in nearly a decade, Cole was completing a 150-h.p. engine to replace Chevy's traditional six-cylinder engine. On 1955's models...
...Monroeville Pa.; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. moved into a $6,000,000 Parma (Ohio) research complex; General Electric completed a $5,000,000 Cleveland laboratory for the study of "psychological and physiological effects of lighting on humans, animals and plants." Other multimillion-dollar research centers are being blueprinted by Ford Motor, General Dynamics' General Atomic Division, Westinghouse Electric, Koppers, Gulf...
...principle and founding a new industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler Corp. has 200 scientists and engineers assigned solely to gas-turbine engine development...
Businessmen generally were concerned with the whole state of the economy rather than with the steel segment. Generally, the news was encouraging. The bottom of the Detroit slump seemed to have been reached and passed. Both Ford and G.M. were rehiring, and Ford announced it had found it necessary to increase production schedules for July...